Carceral City
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Author_John Bardes
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emancipation in Louisiana
emancipation in New Orleans
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Louisiana history
New Orleans history
policing and prisons
policing in New Orleans
policing in the American South
Poor whites in the American South
prison labor in the American South
prisons in Louisiana
prisons in New Orleans
Prisons in the American South
Race
Race and policing
race and prisons
Reconstruction in Louisiana
Reconstruction in New Orleans
Slavery in Louisiana
Slavery in New Orleans
Urban slavery
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- ISBN 9781469678177
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 02 Apr 2024
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders only ever inflicted violence directly or through overseers. Mustering tens of thousands of previously overlooked arrest and prison records, John Bardes demonstrates the opposite: in parts of the South, enslaved and free people were jailed at astronomical rates. Slaveholders were deeply reliant on coercive state action. Authorities built massive slave prisons and devised specialized slave penal systems to maintain control and maximize profit. Indeed, in New Orleans—for most of the past half-century, the city with the highest incarceration rate in the United States—enslaved people were incarcerated at higher rates during the antebellum era than are Black residents today. Moreover, some slave prisons remained in use well after Emancipation: in these forgotten institutions lie the hidden origins of state violence under Jim Crow.
With powerful and evocative prose, Bardes boldly reinterprets relations between slavery and prison development in American history. Racialized policing and mass incarceration are among the gravest moral crises of our age, but these crises are not new: slavery, the prison, and race are deeply interwoven into the history of American governance.
With powerful and evocative prose, Bardes boldly reinterprets relations between slavery and prison development in American history. Racialized policing and mass incarceration are among the gravest moral crises of our age, but these crises are not new: slavery, the prison, and race are deeply interwoven into the history of American governance.
John Bardes is assistant professor of history at Louisiana State University.
